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PENELOPE HAS A VOICE

by Eulalia Valldosera

PENELOPE TIENE VOZ

my experience

I recorded these messages during a short stay in the Pyrenees, in the CENTER D’ART I NATURA of Farrera (Pallars). When I immerse myself in nature, I can easily anchor myself and open the field of memories of other beings – in our case animal species – with minimal risk and with only minimal interference.

The decision not to travel with the rest of the artists to the Antarctic is part of my statement. Acting locally we can influence globally and with a lower environmental impact. I this way I distance myself from the heroic dream of going in search of a virgin territory overlapped with the colonial mentality of our Western culture. I choose to live the feminine side of the adventure that was proposed to me, that is to say, the non-adventure of holding my space in the stillness and the waiting while others leave their territory of comfort, to show and demonstrate to the world their boldness but traveling through the safe channels that contemporary art is journeying.

It was with the intention of investigating my own nature as human and its mediumistic potential – which we share with all the living species of this planet – I joined an expedition that also tried to interact, by means of its artistic activity, with a natural environment in a direct way. We are nature, aren’t we? Our body is a universe that I continue exploring to the extreme of becoming myself the object that transmits and communicates to the public; although taken a step further, releasing the need to be the ‘figure’ with my acting presence, as a classical performer, allowing myself to disappear behind my voice, behind the words, those rhythms and rhymes that, moreover, are not mine. Remaining in known lands, neighbors, I tried to dare to travel to those territories that most fear, not because they have not been mapped, but because our dual mentality fears darkness and silence, doesn’t trust we can have access to other dimensions, irrationality.

It was easy. Every morning before starting my daily walk I was given indications about the animal species that I had to contact, and all I needed to do was to take me to a place where information would be downloaded and recorded on my phone. Each species chose a specific spot, a different climatic moment, generating a geographical experience parallel to their ‘apparitions’, turning in my senses a catalog of the various forms that water takes in the wild. I was even gifted with a sudden snowfall! Thus, the images with which I have subsequently supported the audios were formed, unintentionally. The locutions had already been delivered to the crew just before their departure, as there would be no communication during their voyage. They listened to them at night, sitting in the ship’s library.

I began my journey by approaching a small watercourse. The water is a perfect driver of information that allowed me to establish connection with the Antarctic waters. Water is the same everywhere, it is an information field in itself and resonates in all those parts where it is contained. Watching the water cycle was in itself a metaphor for my journey, since its various stages are talking to me about human alchemy, the artistic process, death and life,… let me repeat what we have heard so many times: we come from water and we dissolve in it when we leave. To witness the snow or the rapid condensation in the form of clouds, the waterfalls the sudden thaw, the rainbow reflected in the humidity … was the material that Life gave me to talk about it… and something similar that nourishes and runs by the earth which animals have referred to at all times calling it light, movement. What a beautiful image penguins jumping into the water to celebrate newborns and capturing light to feed them! They expressed themselves using this therm, and I kept in mind jellyfish -surely they eat them- that the previous day they explained to me how they generate light from the darkness and how their process imitates the activity of the universe. I have never studied animal behavior and its development from the point of view of biology, and I’m glad they express themselves with a didactic capacity unheard of for me.

Initially the sound of the water made it easy for me to go into a trance in a matter of minutes and I hugged the whale that told me would be present during the whole trip. And so it was, travelers said when they came back they spotted thousands of whales, among other common species that inhabit the icy continent. During my stage at the mountains I was in contact with the crew at all times to the point that one night I felt the dizziness of the passengers crossing the Drake canal. It seems that I had not cut the ‘data transfer’ so immediately I ‘unplugged’ to be able to rest. Occupational hazards!

I went ahead of time, yes, I connected with the near future travelers would experience -I kept mostly silent abut this perceptions, focusing on the animal’s perceptions instead- but in the quantum field the space and time coordinates are at least flexible, and one can play to get ahead or travel to the past, the latter being the most common form in which this gift is used to have access to memories and to delocalized knowledge.

Communications were synesthetic, not only I caught the words that sprang from my lips with no more control than my terrible Spanish accent, but I often felt myself in the sea, I saw its colors, I saw their colors, I lived their perception of the sea, their perception of the body of light of other beings … sensations that I found difficult to transmit that spoke to me of the immense intelligence of the living beings speaking through me. Dolphins appeared from various corners of my imagined space, and for a moment they took me with them, allowing me to experience what they literally told in the message, slowing and accelerating my vibes, I really had the feeling of swimming with them and their parables gave me vertigo! They are indeed great communicators, I believe that poem one is the more fluid one. After this trip the sea darkened and populated with tiny spheres, the jellyfish shook me and my hand did not stop moving throughout the all transmission in a swing that drew the symbol of infinity, as they narrate it, at its rhythm. I have been totally faithful to the dictates, although in reality they occurred much more slowly, with silences in between verse and verse that I have erased.

The recurring metaphor of the great lady, of planet Earth as a great woman, was present in most of her stories. Unlike us, animals are clear that we are all in interrelation with the medium that sustains us and describes it as a living and sentient entity. This has been the most powerful perception of his communications, the expression of his interdependence with the most Beautiful, the consciousness of being a fractal of a much more complex apparatus that participates in the present Life reaching the star system. They showed me the planet from afar, the scales of my visions varied at times and went from a microscopic vision to a vision of the terrestrial sphere traveling in the luminescent darkness. Do you remember when the penguins greet the passengers of the Earth ship? Where will it go? Say at the beginning of your message.

Everything participates in everything and it is thanks to this principle that they could address to us, humans, reminding us that many of the learning they carry out and support as a species should already be fully rooted in our field of consciousness. Humble masters, their magic verses have more than one level of understanding if we listen to them carefully. Although I did not always know how to capture the relevant words in English that I was dictated. by ignorance of the language, but that’s it, and I am satisfied.

The last message is perhaps the easiest as I asked without words – and knowing that it is known and scientifically studied that the sounds are amplified by the sea and can affect the life that it contains – how navigation has an impact in their lives? The answer was blunt, touching, and yet there is no resentment, only love, there is no resignation but understanding. That is very difficult to convey but my technique is to ask for words, not speeches that I must interpret later, since I do not want to meddle in the contents that are transmitted to me.

In the end, channeling is learning, because translating implies, whether we accept it or not, the filter of the mentality and culture of the person who acts as a bridge. It is a tremendous responsibility since truths always carry a distortion: I warn you, do not believe anything that does not resonate deeply with the tight strings of your heart, for the mind deceives everyone, including me. Remember Jonah hidden in the belly of the whale for not daring to speak, to prophesy, to transmit what he received. I would say that you stay with the music when it creates harmony and makes you vibrate so that part of your being will understand … the rest will manage. After all, if I receive the messages in the form of verse it must be because they carry a music, and melodies always awakens something to whom it is listening.